ext_46955 ([identity profile] sugar-fey.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] be_compromised2014-08-02 10:35 pm

Promptathon 2014

The Good Ship C/N Promptathon
of Magic and Joy: Round 3



Break out the confetti canons!!

RULES ON POSTING SUBMISSIONS
(please read before you post! <3)


The Rules. Just follow these three easy steps!

1. Leave a Prompt.
Prompts can be anything--simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases. Anything that, to you, inspires a C/N fanwork. Use your imagination. Go WILD. All we ask is that you place anything NSFW under a cut or link, use trigger warnings when appropriate, and place anything spoiler-y under a cut with a warning. As this is a Clint/Natasha promptathon, your prompts and fanworks can include other characters, but the central focus must be on Clint and/or Natasha. If you’re posting large images, please be mindful of members with slower Internet connections and place the image under a cut or link.

And leave as many prompts as you want. I’m serious. Keep coming back, y’all. We want all the prompts we can possibly get Also, be sure to leave each prompt as a separate comment.

2. Wait a week.
Keep leaving prompts and plan your fanworks! This is a time for celebration and creating all of the things. Work hard, shippers.

3. Submit C/N fanwork like there is no tomorrow.
All submissions should either be posted here or linked to this post via a comment. We will make an official post about rules in the time leading up to submissions. Please read it before posting, as responsible partying is to be encouraged at all times.

Timeline

Prompting starts today, August 2nd and will remain open until August 9th. Submissions will start on August 16th, and will remain open until August 31st.  It is, in fact, A WHOLE MONTH OF PROMPTATHON.

If you can’t complete your fanwork by August 31st, that’s okay. You’re still welcome to post your fanwork to the community! However, the promptathon masterlist will only include fanworks from August 16-31.

What we hope to accomplish with all this promptathon-iness:


  • A chance to get in the game. Been wanting to jump into the C/N fanwork scene but not sure where to start? Now’s the time. There’s no length requirement on the works submitted, you can focus on drabbles and vidlets and short and sweet projects (or do longer more epic stuff if that strikes your fancy as well).  It’s really entirely up to you. We’re just hoping to provide a fun, no-pressure environment. If all you want to do is post prompts and share in the squee, that’s fine too!




  • Meet new and awesome people. Newbie or lurker? Here is the perfect opportunity to say hello!



  • Ship like you’ve never shipped before.


If you have any questions, feel free to contact the mod team.

Have fun, everyone. Now fly, my pretties, fly!

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.


Thanks to everyone who participated!
geckoholic: (Avengers Hawkeye)

[personal profile] geckoholic 2014-08-06 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly. I imagine their dynamic as pretty equal and level, and both letting their guard down around each other in ways that they probably never have around anyone else, and I still maintain that MCU!Nat is a lot more empathetic and caring that she lets on, so yes, it'd mean SO MUCH to her that he'd let her comfort him back if needed. That what's between them is not patronizing or some I'll-worry-about-you-but-won't-let-you-worry-about-me bullshit. And now she's face with a version of him that hasn't yet learnt to let ANYONE do that, since -- if we roll with comics backstory -- the people who were supposed to teach him that growing up taught him that letting your guard down may get you a black eye or worse, and he has yet to meet anyone who ~doesn't treat him with some variation of the carrot-and-stick policy (I have a sea of feelings about Clint's comic canon childhood and adolescence, in case you couldn't tell, ahem). And I imagine Natasha would probably try to get level again, put herself in a mindset she's tried to forget about since she settled in with SHIELD and put the red room behind her. The tools are there, you know? They can still understand each other, in some ways more than ever. She'd have to do for him what he did for her, at the start: help him get settled, let things scab over. That's part of what I meant upthread, re: age dynamics. When he brought her to SHIELD, he was the one who was already settled and secure in his place in life, she wasn't. Now it's the other way around. OMG I'm rambling... /o\

And I kinda think self-awareness and not being able to do anything about it would hurt her more, and him too (which means it's what I'm leaning towards, ahem). Loss of control for him, and he'd HATE THAT, and for her it'd be... Like. Having him completely reverse would be a somewhat straight-forward process. Having him remembering and aware would be more of a tease, if you will, and also make for a more erratic process of working things out. It would shove their old status quo into their faces more often, would keep it present in their minds a lot more than the alternative, which would've made it possible for her to make a clear cut and start fresh with him. And I think it'd make him a lot harder to handle too. Easier to approach, maybe, what with their old baseline still being somewhere in their minds, him ~remembering that he trusts her, but also more frustrated and embarrassed about how things are now.

I'M GETTING TOO EXCITED HERE, SOMEONE PUT A STOP TO THIS. XD
scribblemyname: (Default)

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-08-06 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
But I want you to keep rolling because I WANT and LOVE this fic idea and you articulated it better than I did why I thought that'd hurt more, but YES!
geckoholic: (Avengers BlackWidow2)

[personal profile] geckoholic 2014-08-06 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh god, I'm supposed to be writing my Avengers RBB, like, right now. BUT. THIS. I'M ACHING TO GET INTO THIS. AND IT'S BOTH YOUR FAULT.

And yeah, it's like... Dumb metaphor, but there's a reason why, at some point, old houses get torn down and rebuilt from scratch rather than renovated and repaired. It IS easier to build something anew than try and get something you already had to change and adjust, just as you said.
inkvoices: (avengers:shameless enabler)

[personal profile] inkvoices 2014-08-07 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
*high fives [livejournal.com profile] scribble_myname* And our work here is done
scribblemyname: (pyrotastic)

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-08-07 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
:high fives back:
geckoholic: (Avengers Clint/Nat fake)

[personal profile] geckoholic 2014-08-27 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
So, uhm. The bad news is, I so totally won't get this done in time for the promptathon deadline. The good news is, since it muscled my originally planned Marvel Bang fic straight out of the way this past month and right now stands at 11k anyway, I basically went 'ah, fuck it' and submitted it for the bang instead. Which means it'll get posted later, but it will, definitely, get posted. I don't really have a choice on the matter anymore now, lol.

You know. In case it's of interest. XD
Edited 2014-08-27 21:17 (UTC)
scribblemyname: (friends: awesome)

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2014-08-27 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Quite pleased anyway. :grins:
geckoholic: (Avengers Hawkeye)

[personal profile] geckoholic 2014-08-27 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy to hear that. XD
inkvoices: (avengers:jrenner you)

[personal profile] inkvoices 2014-08-28 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
...I'm sorry it took on your original big bang idea and won - poor big bang fic! - but at the same time I'm all woah we planted an idea in your head and it really took root O.O And 11k of fic *happy dance*

I'll just be over here waiting to read it then :D
geckoholic: (Avengers Clint/Nat fake)

[personal profile] geckoholic 2014-08-29 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, 11k is the the submitted ~80% draft, I'm not done yet. It'll probably end up around 14k. Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less. I'm shit at predicting word counts. But either way, yes, it's indeed save to say it REALLY took root. XD